Albert Henrik Mohn (25 November 1918 – 9 May 1999) was a Norwegian

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and

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. He was born in

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as a son of ship-owner and captain Sigurd Mohn (1885–1959) and Margrete Oettinger (1893–1985). He was a brother of

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and a grandnephew of Jakob,

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and Emanuel Mohn. He finished middle school in 1933 and commerce school in 1934. During

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he spent some years in exile in the United Kingdom. He worked with

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and held the military rank of

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, having been twice rejected as a fighting soldier (once during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940) due to his health. He also worked for the newspaper ''Norsk Tidend'' and for

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. He married British citizen Stella Comber in 1943. After the war he was hired by

Toralv Øksnevad Toralv Øksnevad (13 January 1891 – 31 July 1975) was a Norway, Norwegian politician, journalist, newspaper editor and radio personality. He was known as the "voice from London" during World War II, when listening to foreign radio in N ...

as a

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foreign correspondent. After Øksnevad left, Mohn eventually left as well, and began writing for newspapers, including ''

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''. He was also a foreign affairs editor for '' Morgenavisen''. Notable documentary books include ''China i smeltedigelen'' (1950), ''Rød taifun over Korea'' (1951), ''Nassers nære Orient'' (1957), ''Nærbilde av Amerika'' (1964), ''Vietnam'' (1965), ''Tidsbomben Midt-Østen'' (1971), ''Tragedien Nord-Irland'' (1972) and ''Afghanistan kjemper'' (1981). He published

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in 1988 and 1990. He also published a poetry collection in 1946 and four

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s. He died in May 1999 from

renal failure Kidney failure, also known as renal failure or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney fa ...

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